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PRESS RELEASE: Advocates Rally & Sing Against ‘Death By Incarceration’

October 17, 2016
Attn: News Desk
For Immediate Release

Advocates Rally & Sing Against ‘Death by Incarceration’

House Bill 2135 would end Life Without Parole

HARRISBURG, PA  -- On Tuesday October 18th, over 200 people, led by the Coalition to Abolish Death by Incarceration (CADBI), will gather at the State Capitol to demand that all imprisoned people in Pennsylvania have a meaningful opportunity for parole.

Philadelphians Say No to Jail Expansion Plan

DPA press releaseFor Immediate Release
Attn: News Desk

City Council urged to decrease jail population and invest in schools, not jail cells

PHILADELPHIA, PA (June 10, 2015) On Thursday, June 11, concerned community members will converge on City Hall to demand that City Council permanently shelve its plan to build a new county jail. They will call on Council to instead take steps to drastically decrease the city’s jail population and direct resources to the city’s severely underfunded school system.

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